Known the world over as “cocaine hippos,” these invasive giants are the descendants of Pablo Escobar’s pet hippo herd, which has grown from four to around 200 and spread well beyond Escobar’s estate ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

Poppy Pygmy Hippo and her mom Iris handfed by four lucky ducks at Metro Richmond Zoo 'Watching Iris open her giant mouth was a little intimidating, but she was very gentle. Who knew she would like ...

2018's Monster Hunter World is easily one of my most-played video games of the last generation. I spent hundreds of hours fighting its fantastic beasts, crafting the best gear possible, and ...

The accompanying footage, captured in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, shows a hippo ambushing a male lion and ferociously driving him from a river. Masai Mara shared the footage Friday ...

The answer is an unequivocal yes. Generally, it’s best to avoid hippos totally. If a hippo does happen to attack, the odds of living through it depend on whether you can get away or not. Sadly, if a ...

Falcons are known to be fast and powerful predatory birds. However, the peregrine falcon stands in a class by itself. The peregrine falcon is so fast that scientists had to create a computer model to ...

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it's not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, the much larger ...

Campaigners have urged Brits on holiday not to visit famous animals in zoos including a pygmy hippo who became an unwilling internet star after her keeper posted an image on Instagram. Moo Deng ...